mercredi 4 février 2015

Indyref changed everything – except what makes ‘news’ at BBC Scotland

Indyref changed everything –

except what makes ‘news’

at BBC Scotland

By G.A. Ponsonby (4 Feb 2015)

As ever, the talking heads and professional pundits ignore the elephant in the room when discussing Scottish politics – the BBC. Devolution didn’t change the BBC in Scotland, the SNP’s 2007 win didn’t change it, the nationalists 2011 historic majority didn’t change it either. The referendum even saw the BBC regress into a pro-Union colonial broadcaster.BBC Scotland will alter this UK General election, at least in Scotland, of that there is no doubt. Whether the corporation can arrest completely the SNP surge remains to be seen, but it will try.